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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

its a very strong sign of your election position when youre banning news outlets from covering you

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you think they saw your middle finger?

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Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If someone is unable to laugh at themself or to entertain a hypothetical where they might be wrong, don't put them in charge of anything.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Took a sip of Leinies and swore it off for at least the next ten years. Then maybe a Blatz.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI is humbling for those professionals that prided themselves on their spectrum-adjacent skills at ingesting and retaining data.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One day I’d like to arrive in a new city and have the onboarding for their public transit go smoothly, instead of having it be a tour of the mess of accumulated apps that have accreted over time to handle each phase of the task with a completely different login.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Build it and get a Hollywood scale marketing budget and they will come.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/09/2026

VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.” [anildash.com]

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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital

We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Or have acquired a better understanding of God than others.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I see I didn’t understand the assignment. How punk of me.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I personally need S (The Splinters) and P (The Points) and will reserve beta for my nascent band I hope to drum for (Bay To Blockers). Was I early enough?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Frankly as a classical liberal I don’t think any of this should be part of normal political discourse, but if they’re demanding it, fine: Even though it shouldn’t matter, right-wing US Evangelicalism is an unlettered perversion that ineptly projects bigotry into scripture where it doesn’t exist.

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Striped gophers never caught on so much.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh man that is a shock. Maybe they could truck down the Birkie bridge like they did for the Super Bowl.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But he lived on the other side of campus…

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What I want to know is what risk would Google be exposing themselves to if they didn’t bend the knee. So what if they did it, just kind of embarrassing for them. But why?

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Did you go to the TDR Library? Everybody gets inserted into pictures like these.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And repeat for every Middle East warmongering President.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hmm what if the app is the model? 😎

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This danger was always there for management in the software world.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's not using LLM's to program that is that amazing, it is using LLM's to do code review that is a game changer. The pitting of a developer against a good reviewer makes for lockstep forward progress you can have some faith in.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Almost could have shared the bill with Led Zeppelin

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Back in college a state law was passed that gave bicycles all the privilege of other vehicles to use the road, but riders were still harassed (by cops even) for not being on the lakeside paths. Do these motorized personal transports need to helmet up and get on the road beyond a certain MPH?

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Tell me more. Is it reckless use of them on pedestrian paths? Is it the careless abandonment on public and private property? Is it the unexpected trips to the ER for those who encounter them?

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s all about engaging the core without having to understand the concept or get the PT your brain might need.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I just visited the Teddy Roosevelt library that just opened in North Dakota, and the labelling that will counter the MAGA mindset is right there. Progressives is what anti-MAGA are and it was a Republican president who defined for history what it means. Regressives is what MAGA are.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

then being on the path to becoming the billionaire GOAT in that field. But am I an outlier that I accept that scientific facts on your birth certificate matter to such GOAT journeys? And I also think they should have no impact on your amateur pickle ball league.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sportts like other forms of entertainment, has through the advent of mass media, been turned into a deadly serious business on par or greater than all other forms of economic activity. Which almost destroys the value of these entertainments for those who want to engage in them for other reasons..

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Why not Democratic Progressives which co-opts and builds on what TDR started? Then the other side can be seen as the Republican Regressives, a group who wants to go backward to a time when others were more disadvantaged.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Democratic Socialism has been successfully made a slur to moderate Americans who 100% support public education/transportation/health-care/safety-net/open-space/etc.. so why insist on using a term that works in lily white Northern European countries that has been preempted by those 100% against it?

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Michelle @thegreenstudy.com · 07/08/2026

For all you jack-of-many trades & masters of none, let me propose a response to being called a dilettante, a dabbler, flighty, flaky, etc. When you are interested in so many things & get pushed to proclaim a "passion", remember that your passion is likely learning. That's cool and ageless.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

But without golf how would he be the manly outdoorsman he feels he is?

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the human made professional version doesn’t look so special anymore. I can see a whole wave of maybe retro graphics where designers make an effort to not look like AI by avoiding all the tricks that they were privy to prior to LLMs.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What I like about slop menus is they are making it clear that conventional polish thru highlighting and emotion triggering background and all the enormous efforts graphic designers put into getting an ad to look professional has just lost most of its value, because if a computer can fake it…

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Also makes me sure I’ll never rely on Tesla FSD or get in a SpaceX rocket or a Boring Tunnel. Sure it takes a lot of BS to get these state-of-the-art spevulative ventures funded and off the ground, but it takes more than that to build a company that keeps their products working.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thru hard earned experience I have nowhere near that feeling of safety when it’s Tesla’s Super-Duper chargers we pull up to. We avoid them every time we have a choice and it’s not politics (both burn coal) it’s simply product quality.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On this road trip I am so relieved to see the Electrify America 350 kW chargers when we pull off the road, well situated in a corner of a spacious lot with trash cans and rest rooms conveniently nearby.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#OTD I was at the 8/3/83 charity concert at First Avenue where Prince debuted songs that a year later appeared in the “Purple Rain” album & movie. During the song “Purple Rain" I said to myself: "Prince has gone folk." Only in retelling this recently did I realize the echo of “Dylan goes electric.”

Two images: Dylan at Newport Folk Festival 1965, Prince at First Avenue, August 3, 1983

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

An extra foot on most every EV charging cable would be appreciated.

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Scott Johnston @sejwords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think I could 100% troll everyone by putting a "This EV Burns Coal" bumper sticker on my car.

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